A growing body of work emphasizes the importance of regional factors for regional innovativeness. In this paper, about 70 variables approximating the social-economic characteristics of regions are aggregated to 12 regional factors. In four industry-specific set-ups their influence on firms...

Economists pay more and more attention to knowledge networks and drivers of their development. Consequently, a rich literature emerged analyzing factors explaining the emergence of intra-organizational links. Despite substantial work focusing on the dyad level, only little is known about how and...

The Patentatlas by Greif and Schmiedl (2002) represents an important source for patent data in Germany. Its use for industry-specific studies is however problematic because the correct assignment of patent data classified by technological fields to commonly used industry classifications is...

Der Bericht analysiert die Förderung von Digitalisierungs- und Dekarbonisierungsprojekten durch Bundesministerien in Deutschland anhand eines innovativen Identifikationsansatzes. Die Ergebnisse zeigen klare Trends: Seit 2012 nimmt die Zahl der geförderten Digitalisierungsprojekte stetig zu,...